Art Promotes Healthy Child Development (And Here’s How To Do It)

“Every child is an artist until he’s told he’s not an artist.” John Lennon

Every time I read this quote, as a parent of a young child, it is powerful truth that I accept wholeheartedly.

Yet, as a child myself, I never believed I was an artist.

I thought that some people were creative and others weren’t.

But, over the last couple of years, I’ve found a passion for writing and it has reawakened a creative part of my soul that was hibernating for the longest time. Having spent most of my life immersed in science, I now find myself captivated by the life-giving importance of the arts.

Because the truth is that we are all creative; the only difference is whether or not we choose to use our creativity. Brene Brown suggests that unused creativity isn’t benign. When we deny ourselves a creative outlet, it has the potential to metastasize and transform into emotions like grief, rage and judgment.

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Kathleen Notes: Creativity is a wonderful method of self expression and knowledge.